This is absolutely crazy. I can’t believe this is what people thought about computers in 1981 (the year I was born). Actually, I can’t believe newspapers used to cost only 20 cents, but that just goes to show you how much things have changed in the past 28 years. Computers are everywhere these days, and […]
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Austin Debuts World’s First Zombie Warning System
Posted 1/29/2009 1:57 pm by Ron HoganThe conspiracy of silence continues. In Austin, Texas, a road sign blaring a warning about zombies was blamed on hackers and dismissed as a harmless prank. Do you really believe that? I know I don’t. Zombies are out there and they’re going to come sooner, not later. The denials are running hot and heavy. They […]
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St. Louis Fan Braves Snowstorm To Remind Cubs That They Suck
Posted 1/29/2009 1:27 pm by Ron HoganBaseball might be played by the boys of summer, but you can never turn off a rivalry. If you hate the Chicago Cubs like St. Louis Cardinals fans hate the Cubs, then even a horrible blizzard isn’t going to slow down the pain train. The above picture is across from beautiful Busch Stadium, in […]
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PopFi’s Unexpected Snow Day
Posted 1/28/2009 5:38 pm by Ron HoganGreetings and salutations from the frosty Arctic! Well, okay, it’s not exactly Robert Scott’s camp, but it is an oasis from the snowy, blustery wind outside. If you didn’t know, there was a massive snow and ice storm that swept across the midwest, coating everything in its path with ice and snow and causing major […]
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Merrill Lynch CEO’s $87,000 Rug
Posted 1/27/2009 1:36 pm by Ron HoganJohn Thain, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch, has been taking a lot of heat for redesigning his office. It’s not that he was spending his own money; that would be okay. He was spending the company’s money to the tune of $1.22 million dollars while the company was firing workers, bleeding money, and preparing […]
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Oscar 2009: The Academy Award Nominations Are Released
Posted 1/22/2009 1:23 pm by Ron HoganThe Academy Awards nominations are out, and this is the time of year in which everyone who has ever seen a movie likes to weigh in with their opinions on the major categories. Here’s the full list of Oscar nominations over at the IMDB. I’m not sure what to think about some of these nominations, […]
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Astounding Bionic Hand Is Controlled Via Nerve Impulses
Posted 1/22/2009 7:30 am by Ron HoganThis is an astounding display of technology. Every single day, medical science performs minor miracles. First there’s banjo brain surgery that uses electrodes in the brain to stop tremors , and now there’s a bionic hand that’s so skilled it puts my actual human arm to shame. I mean, it would be pretty awful to […]
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Star Wars Nerds And Sports Fans Can Be Friends
Posted 1/22/2009 6:30 am by Ron HoganFor the longest time I thought I was pretty unique. I mean, I’m both a huge fan of Star Wars (and science fiction in general) and a huge sports fan. I’m as comfortable at the BiMonSciFiCon as I am at the sports bar, and I can talk about touchdowns and taun-tauns in the same sentence. […]
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Hug A Squirrel Today!
Posted 1/21/2009 11:58 am by Ron HoganDouble your pleasure as today, January 21, 2009, is a double-dip of wacky holidays. You see, today is both Squirrel Appreciation Day and National Hugging Day. Feel free to maximize your productivity today by combining the two. Go ahead and hug a squirrel (bonus points if it is purple) or a member of rodent royalty. […]
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Gigantic Pyramid Of Glasses Drives Blogger To Drink
Posted 1/21/2009 11:02 am by Ron HoganPyramid Of Glasses – These bloopers are hilarious Is this the world’s tallest pyramid of drinking glasses? I’m not sure if it is, or if there’s anyone really keeping track of how high you can stack things, but it’s a whole lot taller than any similar structure I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been to a […]
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A Bird’s Eye View Of Barack Obama And His 1.5 Million Friends
Posted 1/21/2009 10:37 am by Ron HoganAbout 423 miles up from the surface of the planet earth is the unique satellite GeoEye-1. It’s a commercial satellite, designed mainly for Google purposes, but it also has a pretty stellar camera attached to it. PopSci reports that it is capable of zooming in on objects 16 inches wide, but sometimes when you’re that […]
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Pimping Barack Obama On Inauguration Day
Posted 1/20/2009 9:45 am by Ron HoganToday is a momentous day in American history. Barack Obama will shortly be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States (if he hasn’t already by the time you read this), and this event has sparked a riot of interest in both the inauguration and the newly-minted President himself. What better way to […]
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Museums As Art
Posted 1/13/2009 10:08 am by Ron HoganWhen I was in high school, I went with some schoolmates to Paris, France, for two weeks. It was a school thing, supervised by one of the more fun French teachers, and I had a really good time. One of my big regrets was The Louvre. You see, the line was like four hours long, […]
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The Fight For Edgar Allan Poe
Posted 1/13/2009 12:04 am by Ron HoganIt’s amazing that cities will fight over the right to call dead celebrities their native son, but here we are, some 200 years after the death of the legendary Edgar Allan Poe, and three cities are fighting over the right to call themselves the home of Poe. The sci-fi geeks at io9 has a great […]
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Guerilla Clock Repairmen Strike In Paris
Posted 1/09/2009 1:11 pm by Ron HoganThere are a thousand brazen and desperate criminals out there. They’ll do anything, from stealing alligators to hurling dangerous hedgehogs. If you’re not careful, they’ll even break into one of your country’s foremost national monuments and do restoration work! The Pantheon in Paris is one of the world’s foremost burial chambers, and an incredibly beautiful […]
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Grand Theft Grill: Woman Steals Host’s Gold Teeth
Posted 1/06/2009 12:26 pm by Ron HoganI know friends who will have a party at the drop of the hat. They love getting friends together, buying a keg or some wine, and just having as many people as they can into their three-room apartment or run-down rental house. I’ve never been that kind of guy. I’m not a big fan of […]
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So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes
Posted 1/02/2009 4:30 pm by Ron HoganPeople ring in the new year in any number of ways. Some people shoot off fireworks. Some people get together with their family and watch the ball drop in Times Square. Some people throw shoes into the expressway. Well, okay, they might have not been celebrating 2009, but someone dumped a truckload of shoes into […]
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